Opinion

Thirty years ago, the member states of the United Nations agreed to a binding treaty of international law that would allow all children in all countries and of all ethnicities, cultures and orientations to live in a world in which their human rights would be respected and adhered to.

Dear Editor, The Guyana Times newspaper dated Tuesday, May 15, 2019 published an article captioned `Security Firm accused of not transferring employees’ NIS contributions’.

Dear Editor, In Monday’s edition, Stabroek News carried a news item headlined `SARA awaiting additional info from Teixeira on signing bonus complaint’. 

Dear Editor, Your editorial ‘Stepping up our occupational safety and health record’ (SN: 14/04/2019)  stated, ‘Historically, the Ministry of Social Protection (it used to be called the Ministry of Labour, previously) has, over the years, been markedly indifferent to its responsibility in the matter of the effective enforcement of workplace safety regulations.

Dear Editor, In SN of Saturday 11th May, there is this long self-evaluation of the performance of the APNU+AFC Coalition, after four years in Government.

Dear Editor, The APNU+AFC government has recently completed four years in office.

Dear Editor, Please forgive this belated response to Stabroek News’ May 11th article headed `GEB Security guard accused of discharging firearm granted bail.’

Dear Editor, In yesterday’s Stabroek News, I saw that a certain now notorious roadside bar in Kitty is again under fire from one Shamshun Mohamed.

Dear Editor, Earlier in the year, when the announcement was made by the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) that pensioners receiving $30,000 monthly would have received a further $2,000, as of January, 2019 on their monthly pension, it was reasonable to assume that this increase was going to be across the board, calculated based on a percentage, similar to what has been done with the workers— the higher your salary, the less you get percentage wise. 

On the 1st of May, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), an international court for sports based in Geneva, Switzerland, handed down a decision that will forever change the landscape of the sporting world.

Dear Editor, The Mayor is the head of a municipal corporation, chairman of the Council and highest ranking City official in the City of Georgetown. 

Dear Editor, Mr. Compton Reid, a private citizen, and a farmer from Berbice, took it upon himself to challenge the validity of the vote cast by former APNU+AFC MP Charrandass Persaud as a means of nullifying the December 21, 2018 motion of no-confidence which had ended the term of the government.

Dear Editor,  I’ve met Professor Gibson before and seen enough of her work to say that she is a pleasant person and a competent academic, which is why I continue to find it strange that she remains insistent upon conflating racism and corruption with Hinduism in Guyana.

Dear Editor, Recently, we have been reading and/or hearing of this airline or that airline offering, starting or contemplating Direct Flights from Guyana to cities of North America, when the correct terminology should be Non-Stop Flights.

 The April 17 issue of the Stabroek News published an article (page 17) in which it quotes General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress Lincoln Lewis as saying that the Chinese-owned Guyana Manganese Inc.

Dear Editor, Professor Kean Gibson writes in Stabroek News as follows regarding Mr.